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- Climate change has reached the the indigenous Nenets people in the north of Siberia. The nomads' herds of reindeer move on thin ice. The warming in the Russian Arctic is becoming dramatically visible. Huge craters open in the thawing permafrost and expose dangerous viruses and bacteria. Forest floors dry out and the taiga catches on fire. The pack ice off the coast is melting and depriving polar bears of their habitat so that they approach human settlements in their desperation. The changes in the nature of the Arctic Circle combine with the measurements of researchers and observations of the indigenous people to form a disturbing overall picture: In the Russian Arctic, Pandora's box has been opened. The film team had the chance to shoot in regions that were been restricted areas for decades. The documentary shows in impressive and depressing images already existing effects, phenomena and ominous interlinkages of global warming.
- No other country in Europe has more bears than Romania. There are probably over 6000. Especially in Transylvania, they often come dangerously close to humans. As a result, people in many places are at their wits' end. The film follows a female bear and her three cubs as they leave the protection of the Carpathian forests and become 'problem bears'. Their dramatic fate highlights the challenges of bear-human coexistence. Is there still a common future in densely populated Europe?
- Told by an old Sagauro cactus, of the many guests which live in its "hotel," from ants to owls nestling in its bark and unlikely co-habitants such as a rattle snake and next door, protected by a barrier of thorn balls, a desert rat.
- An epic tale about mother nature's ability to create and destroy as she pleases. The movie opens with an ambiguous birth scene which is contrasted later with a terrifying beyond belief viper attack.
- The Volga is a myth, a unique river of superlatives and the natural lifeline of Russia. With a length of more than 3,500 kilometers, it is the most powerful and water-rich river in Europe. Their catchment area is larger than France, Spain and Portugal combined. While all the other great rivers on earth flow into an ocean, the Volga fills its own sea, the largest inland lake on earth, the Caspian Sea. On the way there it flows through rustic forest areas, through wide steppes and dry semi-deserts, each of which is home to a unique wildlife. In three years of filming and on countless expeditions, the Altayfilm team and their Russian colleagues managed to capture the fascinating stream in grandiose pictures and to fully portray it for the first time. Opulent pictures and breathtaking aerial photographs alternate with animal behavior that has rarely been documented before, told with fine humor and a special lightness.
- The first part of the elaborately produced three-part nature documentary about Europe's most powerful river leads from the source plateau to the large tributaries of the Urals. Although located on the edge of densely populated Europe, the Volga river kingdom still offers a surprising amount of space for untamed nature. There are dozens of nature reserves and reserves in the catchment area. Nowhere else in Europe can you find such intact river landscapes and wetlands. Riparian forests, bogs, meadows and flood plains accompany the lowlands of Oka, Sura, Kama, Wetluga or Samara. They are only tributaries of the huge main stream, but mostly larger than the Rhine, Main or Elbe. As a result of the Second World War, the forests of Central Russia have shrunk considerably. Settlement, dams and agriculture also take their toll. In the huge catchment area of the Volga, however, there is still room for wild animals. European bison, elk and wild boar live in the forested north of the Volga river valley in addition to beaver, mink and otters. The river landscapes are habitats for species that are rarely found in Western Europe.
- The third part of the great nature documentation on the most powerful river in Europe begins in the salt pans and semi-deserts of Kalmykia. In the river bed of the Urvolga, which fell dry thousands of years ago, sea sediments and sand are a plaything of wind and sun. This created landscapes full of magic and the only sandy deserts in Europe in which strange lizards go hunting. The steppes on the southern Volga riverbanks are sparsely populated, but rich in wildlife. In abandoned farms, nature temporarily takes control: rose starlings, buzzards, ground squirrels and hoopoes find shelter and breeding grounds here. On its last kilometers, the Volga splits up into countless single arms and creates a spectacular landscape: The legendary Volga Delta is the largest inland delta on earth, which flows into the largest inland lake on earth, the Caspian Sea. Where the river and the sea meet and millions of tons of sediments carried change the appearance of the landscape every year, you will find a diverse wildlife. White-tailed eagles, pelicans and one of the largest known collections of mute swans and whooper swans, as well as wild boars roaming through the bottomless reed wilderness.
- The second part of the elaborate nature documentation on Europe's most powerful river leads from the forest border of Central Russia through the southern Russian steppes to the Caspian semi-deserts. The huge Volga dominates the dry Russian lowlands as a large blue band. It grazes the edge of the Asian continent along the Kazakh border. The river majestically measures the feather grass steppes and the area where the Volga Germans once settled. The Volga has hardly any inflows here. It has collected its water in the forested north and now flows broadly and lazily into the interior of the continent. Smaller rivers branch off from it to return to the main stream a few hundred kilometers further on. The Volga has become the "mother of the rivers", source and mouth at the same time. In their up to 20 kilometers wide stream valley, river forests press forward into the dry south. With them the strange Russian Desmans that only occur in the Volga Basin. The strange water moles hunt for insects and fish in poorly flowing old arms. Along the middle course of the Volga, steppe marmots colonize the dry slopes and great bustards display on the fields. Steppe foxes, young cranes and saiga antelopes are messengers of the Central Asian steppes, which extend far from the Volga to Eastern Mongolia.
- While the Greater Caucasus forms the region's northern, Russian border, the Lesser Caucasus is the southern, also stretching east-west from Black Sea to Caspian Sea. Wildlife is rich, often well-preserved and wildly varied in mountains, valleys, hills and planes of the sparsely populated, relatively remote former Soviet republics of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
- Visit one of America's newest national parks - the Saguaro Desert in Arizona, where more species reside than any other desert in North America.
- The Grand Canyon is one of the most famous natural wonders on our planet. Millions of visitors come each year, but few know of the wonders in the hidden places between rim and river. While tourists crowd the cliff tops of the South Rim, bison and pronghorn roam little prairies across the gorge. Partake in an epic journey deep down in the canyon, along the steep cliffs, and more. See the Grand Canyon as you have never seen it before.